This blog is a place to continue the discussion. It also allows the conversation to expand beyond the class and history, to issues of concern in the African American community, including the arts, culture, lifestyle, and the black family.
Should you contribute to the discussion with comments, please do so respectfully in words, tone, and attitude when expressing a point of view. If you are so inclined, recommendations on how to solve the myriad of problems facing African Americans are welcome. If you use information or refer to facts from others, cite your sources. Please include your age in your comments.
In addition to our achievements, some of the major issues discussed in the class are:
- the inadequate education of African American children
- the need for our children to know their history beyond African American History month
- the high, disproportionate percentage of African Americans in prison
- the breakdown of the black family in respect to the loss of customs, traditions, and sense of community
- children having children
- the need for more businesses owned by African Americans, and
- the need for African American leaders and national organizations to unify and focus on changing the impoverished circumstances of the black underclass.
Current events are included in the discussion here. The topics are wide-ranging, from President Obama to racism in America, black health, accomplishments of our people, to politics, corrupt black officials, to hypocrites in the pulpit and more. African American Seniors' Wisdom is a forum for those of us who've reached a certain age and have gained perspective on life.
I hope you will join the discussion.
RW Evans
This is great!
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ReplyDeleteglad to see this blog. I agree with you, there is a need for black youth to know
history. There is an effort ot ignore black history. Ancient history is black
history. Black history is the history of mankind.; the human family. There would
be no mankind without black history
Thank you!
Mildred Smith
This blog is being initiated by Ms. Rochelle Evans, an active participant in my African-American History class at the Lou Walker Center. Ms. Evans teaches "Romance After Fifty", another very popular class at the center. Here's the website: http://aframerseniorwisdom.blogspot.com/2010/12/african-american-seniors-wisdom.html
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Ron Gilliam
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who creates the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
-Victor Hugo
I'm still figuring out how this blog thing works. As you read and post items to the blog, click "Post Comment" when your post is complete. I encourage you to comment often. If there is a topic you wish to discuss or a subject you want to know more about, put it in your comments and I'll be sure, with Ron Gilliam's assistance, to post it on the blog.
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The President is taking heat from both sides of the political aisle. Could Carl Bernstein be correct when he said, on MSNBC's Morning Joe show, that most politicians, at all levels, are in the pocket of corporate America? If this is true, it helps explain the de-regulation of the banking industry, lack of public option, attempts at privatizing social security, the surge in Iraq and Afghanistan, and on & on & on.......all issues that the majority of Americans oppose?
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